"Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.“


-John Polkinghorne

posted in hope


Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science."

-John Polkinghorne

scienceView Quote
"If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that."

-John Polkinghorne

scienceView Quote
"I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years."

-John Polkinghorne

scienceView Quote
"Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story."

-John Polkinghorne

scienceView Quote
"Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history."

-John Polkinghorne

scienceView Quote
"I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science."

-John Polkinghorne

scienceView Quote

More Quotes About hope

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy."

-Robert Wyatt

hopeView Quote
"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys."

-Marvin Gaye

hopeView Quote
"I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it."

-Lucy Hale

hopeView Quote
"I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too."

-Fuzzy Zoeller

hopeView Quote
"It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes."

-John Clayton

hopeView Quote
"There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride."

-Fuzzy Zoeller

hopeView Quote